Iran-contra Memo

August 18, 1988

PROSECUTORS SAY a onetime White House employee recalled seeing a memo detailing diversion of U.S.-Iran arms-sale profits to Nicaraguan rebels that had been attached to a letter to President Reagan. James Radzimski, a former National Security Council aide, told prosecutors that the memo by former NSC aide Oliver North referred to $12 million in arms-sale proceeds that went to the Contras, according to a filing in U.S. District Court. North's memo to former national security adviser John Poindexter was included in a letter Poindexter sent to Reagan, according to an account of Radzimski's statements to prosecutors.